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I am so worried about what's happening in the news and politics even though I can barely understand them. How it will effect me and my family. What will the future be for us? It causing me so much anxiety that I can't help but cry while home alone. Does anyone else feel like this?

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After watching spiderman i finally understand this picture of Tom

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Hey guys, if anyone has been following me for any amount of time, you may know that I’ve been struggling a lot this past year, with losing my dad to cancer, and losing my job and my U.C benefit several times during the year due to my mental health issues. I have almost been evicted and made homeless due to my benefit cuts and benefit reassessments and I have been under so much emotional stress from the lack of eating proper food these past few weeks, that I’ve almost been hospitalized. 

Thankfully, due to the compassion and dedication of complete strangers, I was able to pay my rent and keep my home and buy small amounts of groceries. And I’m happy to say that my benefit is no longer in a reassessment period and is due to me on November 25th. However, I do have confirmation that the payment I will receive will only be £245.07 (I can show evidence of this) and a majority of that payment will once again go towards paying my rent,  as my housing benefit is not yet in place. 

I am really so sorry to have to do this again and again and I know that I have other donation posts circulating but, with me trying to get my life back to normal, things have been incredibly difficult. All I’m asking for is £100 to help get me through December, or if anyone can spare anything to help me to get back on my feet I would really appreciate it, even £1/$1 would really go a long way to help me.

My Youcaring post is available here if anyone wants to understand my situation.

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sometimes I forget that I'm just a teenager writing a webcomic in my spare time, so I shouldn't hold myself to the same standards as, say, a feature film with an entire team of professional writers, or Hiromu Arakawa. Writing flawed stories is okay, and even necessary in order to write better ones :)

(if you want to read aforementioned amateur webcomic...)

How to Plot A Complex Novel in One Day (It WILL take all day)

Now first, I have to say, that the plot you’re able to come up with in one day is not going to be without its flaws, but coming up with it all at once, the entire story unfolds right in front of you and makes you want to keep going with it. So, where to begin? 

What is your premise and basic plot? Pick your plot. I recommend just pulling one from this list. No plots are “original” so making yours interesting and complicated will easily distract from that fact, that and interesting characters. Characters will be something for you to work on another day, because this is plotting day. You’ll want the main plot to be fairly straight forward, because a confusing main plot will doom you if you want subplots. 

Decide who the characters will be. They don’t have to have names at this point. You don’t even need to know who they are other than why they have to be in the story. The more characters there are the more complicated the plot will be. If you intend to have more than one subplot, then you’ll want more characters. Multiple interconnected subplots will give the illusion that the story is very complicated and will give the reader a lot of different things to look at at all times. It also gives you the chance to develop many side characters. The plot I worked out yesterday had 13 characters, all were necessary. Decide their “roles” don’t bother with much else. This seems shallow, but this is plot. Plot is shallow. 

Now, decide what drives each character. Why specifically are they in this story? You can make this up. You don’t even know these characters yet. Just so long as everyone has their own motivations, you’re in the clear. 

What aren’t these characters giving away right off the bat? Give them a secret! It doesn’t have to be something that they are actively lying about or trying to hide, just find something that perhaps ties them into the plot or subplot. This is a moment to dig into subplot. This does not need to be at all connected to their drive to be present in the story.  Decide who is in love with who, what did this person do in the 70’s that’s coming back to bite them today, and what continues to haunt what-his-face to this very day. This is where you start to see the characters take shape. Don’t worry much about who they are or what they look like, just focus on what they’re doing to the story. 

What is going to change these characters? Now this will take some thinking. Everyone wants at least a few of the characters to come out changed by the end of the story, so think, how will they be different as a result of the plot/subplot? It might not be plot that changes them, but if you have a lot of characters, a few changes that are worked into the bones of the plot might help you.

Now list out the major events of the novel with subplot in chronological order. This will be your timeline. Especially list the historical things that you want to exist in backstory. List everything you can think of. Think about where the story is going. At this point, you likely haven’t focused too much on the main plot, yeah, it’s there, but now really focus on the rising actions, how this main plot builds its conflict, then the climactic moment. Make sure you get all of that in there. This might take a few hours. 

Decide where to start writing. This part will take a LOT of thinking. It’s hard! But now that you’ve got the timeline, pick an interesting point to begin at. Something with action. Something relevant. Preferably not at the beginning of your timeline - you want to have huge reveals later on where these important things that happened prior are exposed. This is the point where you think about what information should come out when. This will be a revision of your last list, except instead of being chronological, it exists to build tension. 

Once you’ve gotten the second list done, you’ve got a plot. Does it need work? Probably. But with that said, at this point you probably have no idea who half your characters are. Save that for tomorrow, that too will be a lot of work. 

After you’ve plotted the loose structure of your novel from this, see my next post to work on character! 

here’s a new fic about Lance bein a Druid and Keith bein part of the Blade!

Summmary:

After Keith was born, his mother took him and his father to the Blade to survive and help. While leaving, Lotor asks her to take his brother Lance with her and she does. They make it to the base where they train the two to get stronger and help take down Zarkon. Everything changed years later when the two get a mission to save the Champion from the arena because Druid Izabel sensed that he was going to help. He, along with Lance and Keith, were Paladins of the ancient Voltron that none thought would be found.

Me, a fool: It would be cool if TOTK brought back old Zelda enemies!

Me, later: I take it back I take it back I take it back

Something about the hand shaped enemies in Zelda games give me the absolute heebie-jeebies. I hate them so much. They freak me out man, it’s legit bad for my heart!

So here’s an artistic interpretation of the first time I came across those damnable gloom floormasters in game. It was like every creepy hand enemy merged into one nightmarish abomination come to haunt me. Link almost met the goddesses that day…

See if you can spot all the references!

I just drew a little something. Its supposed to be Winter Schnee and her mom singing together. I was thinking of a headcannon where her mom was happier when Winter was born and sang her many lullabies. Inspired by the movie Brave, though I won't tag it. Tell me what you think.